xxii, 1174 pages ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Methods in reading research / Karl Haberlandt -- Why study spoken language? / Fernanda Ferreira and Michael Anes -- Eye movements in reading : psycholinguistic studies / Keith Rayner and Sara C. Sereno -- Psycholinguistics electrified : event-related brain potential investigations / Marta Kutas and Cyma K. Van Petten -- A guide to research on the perception of speech / Robert E. Remez -- Speech perception as a tractable problem in cognitive science / Keith R. Kluender -- Psychological aspects of speech perception : implications for research and theory / Dominic W. Massaro -- Spoken word recognition : research and theory / Scott E. Lively, David B. Pisoni, and Stephen D. Goldinger -- Visual word recognition : the journey from features to meaning / David A. Balota -- Context and the processing of ambiguous words / Greg B. Simpson -- Sentence parsing / Don C. Mitchell -- Figurative thought and figurative language / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Understanding figurative language / Cristina Cacciari and Sam Glucksberg -- Discourse inference processes / Murray Singer -- Question asking and answering / Arthur C. Graesser, Cathy L. McMahen, and Brenda K. Johnson

Comprehension and memory of narrative texts : inferences and coherence / Paul van den Broek -- Levels of representation in memory for discourse / Charles R. Fletcher -- Analogical processes in comprehension : simulation of a mental model / Arthur M. Glenberg, Peter Kruley, and William E. Langston -- Understanding expository text : building mental structures to induce insights / Bruce K. Britton -- Resolving sentences in a discourse context : how discourse representation affects language understanding / Simon C. Garrod and A.J. Sanford -- Selective processing in text understanding / A.J. Sanford and Simon C. Garrod -- The psychology of discourse processing / Walter Kintsch -- Recent controversies in the study of language acquisition / Paul Bloom -- Child phonology : past research, present questions, future directions / LouAnn Gerken -- Individual differences in children's text comprehension / Jane Oakhill -- Psycholinguistics and reading ability / Charles A. Perfetti

Language deficits in "specific" reading disability / Richard K. Olson -- Learning a language late : second language acquisition in adults / Kerry Kilborn -- Language production : grammatical encoding / Kathryn Bock and Willem Levelt -- Discourse in production / Herbert H. Clark -- Language and the brain / David Caplan -- The neuropsychology of language / Edgar Zurif and David Swinney -- Working memory constraints in comprehension : evidence from individual differences, aphasia, and aging / Patricia A. Carpenter, Akira Miyake, and Marcel Adam Just -- Future directions / Alan Garnham

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